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Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world / / J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru
| Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world / / J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru |
| Autore | Cale Johnson J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (501) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
History of science |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Literary collections.
Early works. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Physiognomy Description Ekphrasis |
| ISBN |
3-11-064268-9
3-11-064269-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world" -- 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia -- 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy -- 3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview -- 4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited -- 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy -- 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic -- 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor -- 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics -- 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics -- 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic -- 11. Representing the insane -- 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative -- 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets" -- 14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070). Is the "London Physiognomy" a fake or a "semi-fake," and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) or to one of its sources? -- 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996312647603316 |
Cale Johnson J
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| Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world / / J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru
| Visualizing the invisible with the human body : Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world / / J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru |
| Autore | Cale Johnson J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (501) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
History of science |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Literary collections.
Early works. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Physiognomy Description Ekphrasis |
| ISBN |
3-11-064268-9
3-11-064269-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to "Visualizing the invisible with the human body: Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world" -- 1. Demarcating ekphrasis in Mesopotamia -- 2. Mesopotamian and Indian physiognomy -- 3. Umṣatu in omen and medical texts: An overview -- 4. The series Šumma Ea liballiṭka revisited -- 5. Late Babylonian astrological physiognomy -- 6. Pathos, physiognomy and ekphrasis from Aristotle to the Second Sophistic -- 7. Iconism and characterism of Polybius Rhetor, Trypho and Publius Rutilius Lupus Rhetor -- 8. Physiognomic roots in the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian: The application and transformation of traditional physiognomics -- 9. Good emperors, bad emperors: The function of physiognomic representation in Suetonius' De vita Caesarum and common sense physiognomics -- 10. Physiognomy, ekphrasis, and the 'ethnographicising' register in the second sophistic -- 11. Representing the insane -- 12. The question of ekphrasis in ancient Levantine narrative -- 13. Physiognomy as a secret for the king. The chapter on physiognomy in the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secret of Secrets" -- 14. Ekphrasis of a manuscript (MS London, British Library, Or. 12070). Is the "London Physiognomy" a fake or a "semi-fake," and is it a witness to the Secret of Secrets (Sirr al-Asrār) or to one of its sources? -- 15. A lost Greek text on physiognomy by Archelaos of Alexandria in Arabic translation transmitted by Ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Dimashqī: An edition and translation of the fragments with glossaries of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910372750303321 |
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Cale Johnson J
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| Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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